Improvement in baskets



L H. c. JONES.

Improvement in Baskets.

No. 130,138, Patented Aug. 6,1872.

WiTNESSES= INVENTOR:

UNITED STATEs HORACE O. JONES, OF DOWAGIAG, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN BASKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,138, dated August6, 1872.

SPECIFICATION.

I, HORACE O. J oNEs, of Dowagiac, in the county of Cass and State ofMichigan, have invented certain Improvements in Baskets, of which thefollowing is a specification:

My invention relates in its nature to a new combination of old parts,the object being to produce an improved basket of the class known asstave-baskets, a drawing of which accompanies this, illustrating myinvention,

and making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 shows ahorizontal sectional View of a device embodying my invention. Fig. 2shows a vertical transverse section through the bottom of the same.

Letters of reference marked on the drawing refer to similar lettersmarked in this specification, of which A represents the laminae orstaves of which the body of the basket is composed. These staves areconstructed in the usual manner of constructingstaves for wooden orboard bottomed baskets, and extend from the top of the basket to thebase, where they are confined between the disk B on the upper and innerside of the bottom, and the hoop O and smaller disk D on the under andouter side of the basket-bottom. These staves are so arranged as tooverlap each other in such a manner that each stave forms a part of theouter and a part of the inner side of the body of the basket, with oneedge of each overlapping one edge of the next succeeding stave, whichorder is maintained throughout the entire circle of the body of thebasket. The disk B and hoop O are made equal in size, and are attachedto each other by means of nails driven through the hoop and staves andclinched in the disk B, The smaller disk confines the points of thestaves A by means of nails driven through it and through the staves andclinched in the disk B also. Thus the said staves will be nailed at twopoints in the bottom of the basket, and the top will be hooped andprovided with handles in the usual manner of hooping and handleingstavebaskets, and need not be described here.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim The combinationconsisting of the overlapping stav'es A, disk B, hoop O, and disk D,when constructed, arranged, and combined as and for the purposeshereinbefore set forth.

HORACE O. J ON ES.

Witnesses:

HENRY MICHAEL, SHEPHERD H. WHEELER.

